Landon Howell

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Great product security should be slightly annoying

💳 Please do not remove your card!
Chip-based credit card readers reduced U.S. counterfeit fraud by 76%.

⌨️ Please choose a more secure password!
A 6-character password using only lowercase letters has more than 308 million possible combinations. But increased by only one to make a 7-character password has more than 8 billion combinations.

📲 Please enter 2FA code!
81% of security breaches are due to weak or stolen passwords, 61% of people use the same password on multiple services, phishing emails have a 47% success rate, and 2FA prevents 99.9% percent of attacks on accounts.